While
it is easy to take pot shots at companies that want to come across
as corporate good guys and have chosen cancer as their vehicle, keep
in mind that Cancer Incorporated has spent decades worming its way
into the policymaking cloakrooms in Washington and crafting brilliant
propaganda campaigns to the public. It’s a popular and politically
correct disease to support. So, if somebody in any of these companies
came out and questioned the wisdom of promoting cancer fund drives,
how in the world could they convince anybody to think clearly about
it? Worse yet, what would others think of them?

That’s
how pervasive the cancer propaganda campaign has become. Who dares
to question the prevailing wisdom of the American Cancer Society and
the National Institutes of Health? Only committed people like the
folks at Prevent Cancer Coalition who make it their business to look
under the carpet for the facts and are willing to stand up and shout.
[Read]

The
plain fact of the matter is that the American Cancer Society is not
in the business of finding the causes and the cures for cancer. It
is in the business of raising money to spread around to any entity
that wants to support the agenda of keeping cancer a money-making
proposition. According to Prevent Cancer Coalition (PCC) and others
who have been critical of Cancer Incorporated, the ACS is not only
the wealthiest “non-profit” with assets close to a billion dollars,
it focuses only on improving access to screening (drumming up more
customers), diagnosis and treatment (read: more use of medical services,
particularly drugs) and not on real prevention, thanks to its alliances
and financial dependence on the cancer industry.

In
a 1996 press release, Prevent Cancer Coalition publicly cut the boloney
factor out of the longtime National Breast Cancer Awareness campaign.

Zeneca
Pharmaceutical, a U.S. subsidiary and recent spinoff of ICI, has
been the sole funder of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
since 1984. ICI is one of the largest manufacturers of petrochemical
and chlorinated organic products, such as acetochlor and vinyl
chloride, and the sole manufacturer of Tamoxifen, the world's
top-selling cancer drug used for breast cancer. Financial sponsorship
by Zeneca/ICI gives them editorial control over every leaflet,
poster, publication, and commercial produced by NBCAM. NBCAM is
promoted by the cancer establishment, the National Cancer Institute
(NCI) and the American Cancer Society (ACS), with their corporate
sponsors.

ICI has
supported the NCI/ACS blame-the-victim theory on the causes of
breast and other cancers. This theory attributes escalating cancer
rates to heredity and faulty lifestyle, rather than avoidable
exposures to industrial carcinogens contaminating the air, water,
food, consumer products, and the workplace.

Anyone
who is involved with The Pink Ribbon Campaign in good faith, might
well read the testimony we’ve listed at the end of this article from
The House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight held in 1998
in regards access to alternative therapies. We’ve highlighted several
specifically related to breast cancer and cancer in general and we
have also provided the link to the entire list of testimonies. Burying
the grim realities of breast cancer in an upbeat Pink Ribbon Campaign
we find somewhat tasteless, to say the least.

While
Cancer Incorporated has managed to develop a total emersion propaganda
system for their empire, other corporate empires gin up their own
brand of health-related propaganda. One of the more bizarre of such
projects just revealed in the British newspaper, The Guardian,
is that an organization called Arise (Associates for Research into
the Science of Enjoyment), founded in 1988, claimed it was made up
of a worldwide group of “eminent” scientists who could act as independent
commentators.

In
the 1990s, Arise cooked up a project to promote the virtues of eating
chocolate, smoking, drinking tea, coffee, and alcohol! The idea was
to produce scientific studies to be used as propaganda fodder for
press consumption.

The
scientific excuse to promote these particular lifestyle habits was
to avoid guilt, which the researchers rationalized, could increase
stress and undermine the immune system. This could then lead to forgetfulness,
eating disorders, heart problems or brain damage. In short, as Arise
spokesmen said, “The ‘health police’ could be causing more harm than
good.”

This
lifestyle assessment project, which lasted from September 1993 to
March 1994, generated 195 newspaper articles, radio and TV interviews
in some of the world’s top media outlets. Much of this coverage centered
around a poll Arise claimed it commissioned called “Naughty but Nice.”

In
documents that have now just become available, Guardian reporter,
George Monbiot, reports that funding for this project originated from
Coca-Cola, Phillip Morris, British American Tobacco, and RJ Reynolds,
among others.

Elissa
and I recommend that you read the entire Guardian article,
as it reveals all kinds of tidbits of how disinformation propaganda
is created. [Read]

Big
Pharma is also no stranger to smoke and mirrors propaganda and manages
to crank up a goodly number of other techniques to make sure that
everyone in America is bombarded with the message that the cure for
what ails you lies in chemistry and nothing else works. We challenge
you to remember the number of “news” stories you’ve heard in the last
few months about the development of a new drug (not yet FDA approved)
or new technique (not yet on the market), or new scientific ‘breakthrough”
that has just happened that is so important that it makes the headlines
as a ‘PROMISING NEW blah blah blah.” The fact that whatever it is
never materializes as promised doesn’t matter. What matters is that
we are constantly bombarded with the promise of what lies ahead in
the wonderful world of scientific research and miracle drugs. (subliminal
message: send more money!)

Running
in a parallel track of this same well-oiled smoke and mirrors “nothing
ever works but chemistry” propaganda machine is the concerted effort
to trash the value of dietary supplements in the press. In the last
two years, there have been headlines trumpeting absolutely ridiculous,
false and misleading “news.” See which ones you remember:

One
of Elissa’s favorite propaganda techniques to watch for is when some
reasonably positive story is reported about some natural substance
or treatment. There always has to be a qualifier in the story to suggest
this great news might not be true, and some MD who knows nothing is
usually interviewed (as the "medical expert”) so he can warn people
to be cautious.

These
cautionary comments no longer rise to the level of those the AMA used
to peddle for almost a century against the chiropractic profession.
The chiros got sick of being maligned, so a group of them sued under
the Sherman Anti-trust Act and the Federal Court ruled the AMA could
no longer make claims against the profession. Up until that ruling
in the 1990s, the AMA encouraged its members to condemn the chiropractic
profession as being “unscientific,” “unproven,” “dangerous” and "absolute
quackery.” [Read]

While
there is no longer a large volume of blatantly insulting propaganda,
there is the consistent and insidious practice of ignoring genuine
news about dietary supplements.

One
study published in JAMA found that there was a 24% reduction in deaths
among healthy female users of vitamin E but that fact was ignored
in favor of focusing on the finding that the vitamin E in the study
had no effect on cardiovascular disease or cancer prevention. This
distorted news story came from an official NIH press release where
the good news was buried in the fine print at the end of the release,
which the news media never bothered to read before running with another
headline news.

Another
story in the Annals of Internal Medicine reported an intravenous
vitamin C study, which concluded that intravenous vitamin C could
reach blood concentrations 70 times greater than oral vitamin C and
that at that level, vitamin C could kill cancer cells. This landmark
study was never picked up by the news media so the world did not learn
that it confirmed similar studies by two-time Nobel prize-winners
Dr. Linus Pauling and Ewan Cameron done 28 years earlier. Ignoring
significant studies linking successful treatment of cancer with vitamin
C has become standard operating procedure to the press, as well as
official medical reference listings such as the National Library of
Medicine. Dr. Pauling’s studies have been systematically ignored,
though there are many of his papers published in the Journal of
Orthomolecular Medicine.

The
Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, although in publication for
38 years, has never been listed on the government database MEDLINE.
These and other ignored papers can be found on the Orthomolecular
website: www.orthomolecular.org.
You can also ask your employee, Sheldon Kotzin, who is the Scientific
Review Administrator at the National Library of Medicine and who oversees
MEDLINE, exactly why the JOM is not represented on MEDLINE. His work
email is kotzins@mail.nlm.nih.gov.

Another
trick of the trade, to create false information in the public eye
to blur the truth, includes a report that a dietary supplement derived
from grapes was found to have anti-aging properties due to its ability
to repair DNA and might even lower risks of cardiovascular disease.
This information was widely disseminated but quickly denied by other
researchers funded by a drug company who claimed that the supplements
used were not “biologically available,” a falsehood that ignored the
fact the supplements were already being successfully used in a European
cancer study.

One
of the biggest bugaboos about hiding the real truth from the public
is how Big Pharma’s biggest screwups go unreported, sometimes ending
in the death of patients who should have been warned of the risks.
Vioxx is the most blatant and widely reported example of a coverup
gone wrong. In this case, Vioxx manufacturer Merck, couldn’t hide
all the bodies, as it is believed that the drug killed at least 27,785
people and caused 160,000 heart attacks and strokes. David Graham,
whose job at the FDA was to report dangerous drugs, was told to shut
up when he warned about Vioxx. The New England Journal of Medicine
printed glowing reports about Vioxx’s virtues, neglecting to publish
the dirty little secret that it killed people in higher numbers than
acceptable--even for drugs! And, in the end, when the truth came out
that tens of thousands of people died because the truth was suppressed,
one of the Vioxx developers was still willing to lie in court about
its safety and for six years never bothered to correct the article,
either.

The
truth is, I could write a whole book on the follies of propaganda
being used to dull us into submission and to make us “feel good” about
surrendering our bodies to modern medicine. However, until that time
comes, here are some “Cliff Notes” you may want to keep at hand to
keep the scorecard straight:

1.
784,000 people die every year in America using modern medicine’s products
and services. Here’s the research paper I wrote to prove it, as well
as a one page chart from that paper as a quick reference. [Read]
[Read]

2.
It would take ONE BILLION uses of both natural products and services
to kill 14 people TOTAL, and here’s the paper and the charts to prove
it. [Read]
[Read]

3.
You want to know why modern medical experts can’t figure out how natural
healing arts actually work. Here’s a great summary explaining the
dirty secret we have to tell. Simply put, there are TWO branches of
medicine and the natural guys’ methods have worked for a long time
and they don’t kill people! [Read]

Since
both Elissa and I believe the most powerful people in the health freedom
movement are folks like you and us, the next time you see some propaganda
piece that rubs you the wrong way, please send some of the above documents
to your media that keeps putting out the big lies. Let these media
folks know that the truth is available and is waiting to be told.

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And
one final thought—before this article becomes a book! Here in America,
in particular, we have been conditioned to believe that cancer is
a scary thing and we’ll all die if we don’t give money for research.
People in the natural healing arts don’t buy into the fear and "hope
propaganda" campaign. Many of us have bothered to seek the truth about
how we can keep our bodies healthy by lifestyle changes and by avoiding
environmental hazards. If we get cancer, we gather information from
a broad number of sources outside of Cancer Incorporated and make
choices that produce incredible results that are never reported in
the press. We invite you to check out the following resources:For part 1 click
below.

Dr. Carolyn Dean
is a medical doctor, naturopathic doctor, herbalist, acupuncturist, nutritionist,
as well as a powerful health activist fighting for health freedom as president
of Friends of Freedom International. Dr.
Dean is the author of over a dozen health books, the latest of which is
"Death By Modern Medicine".

Elissa Meininger
is vice president of Friends of Freedom International and co-founder of
the Health Freedom Action Network, a grassroots citizens' political action
group. She is also a health freedom political analyst and can be heard
on the natural health radio show SuperHealth, broadcast weekly on station
KEBC (Information Radio 1340) in Oklahoma City.

The
plain fact of the matter is that the American Cancer Society is not in
the business of finding the causes and the cures for cancer. It is in
the business of raising money to spread around to any entity that wants
to support the agenda of keeping cancer a money-making proposition.